A Very Quiet Street
A Very Quiet Street? Exploring the hidden histories of West Princes Street and Queens Crescent. Writers Zoë Strachan and Louise Welsh lead a half-mile (self-guided virtual) walk along West Princes Street & Queen’s Crescent engaging with two hundred years of social and cultural history, including North Atlantic slavery, city planning, art, literature, music, crime, LGBTQ+ lives, new communities, scientific innovation, esoterica and more. Originally part of the 1840s and 50s’ grand city plan, West Princes Street is now adjacent to the M8 motorway. Community activism challenged some of the planning proposals of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Home of Postcard Records, host to Scotland’s first ‘gay movement club’, site of one of Glasgow’s most infamous murders, birthplace of a Nobel Prize winner, inspiration to novelists and poets – explore stories hidden behind tenement and townhouse doors.
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Organised by: Louise Welsh and Zoe Strachan
Louise Welsh is an author and Professor of Creative Writing at University of Glasgow. Zoë Strachan is a novelist and professor of Creative and Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow.
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Louise Welsh is an author and Professor of Creative Writing at University of Glasgow. Zoë Strachan is a novelist and professor of Creative and Interdisciplinary Practice at University of Glasgow.
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Email: louise.welsh@glasgow.ac.uk
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